So this is Christmas
Larry Brown is here
Our team's gonna play defense!
And learn how to share!

No more 1 on 4 breaks
Even J-Craw may play smart
Starbury might stop proclaiming
That he's the best ever guard!

Have a holly July Christmas
And Chanukah cheer
Until hip replacement Larry
Gets bored with life here

So we have Larry Brown, and the Knicks can't suck so hard anymore. I'm not in love with the man; he reminds me of the kind of guy who complains that New York has changed so much, and he missed it from when it was tough and gritty and there was stickball in the streets and old Jewish men sold you low-priced underwear on Orchard Street before they tore it down to build a yuppster supermarket/ grilled cheese/ t-short shop (okay, I feel the same way). Speaking of run on sentences, here is the requisite Mike Lupica ramble, which will look like:

[insert name] has been the greatest and will be the greatest since the greatest &c. [insert dumbed down language], [make reference to stadium boondoggles], [mention the yankees and whose town is this], [add run on sentences to connote a wandering past], [mention how much so and so loves New York/ the team + why they are a classic player/ coach with a link to the glorious golden cream-filled past], [insert simplistic, unenlightening doubts]. finish.

But... what's Larry going to do? Who is he going to play? The vets on the team are.... curious at best. Does Jerome James listen when a contract isn't dangling in front of his face?Does Starbury ever listen to anyone? Does J-Craw have an evil DJ in his head that is stuck on scratching the word "shoot shoot" from Nas' Made You Look? Will Q look longingly at Brandy in the stands?

Will David Lee/ Channing Frye/ Nate Robinson/ Trevor Ariza get off the bench? Will Mike Sweetney still have that extra twinkie look? Will Tim Thomas be considered a "veteran presence," with history of consistent mediocrity that borders on suckitude?

At least we have a soap opera to watch. Well, for you guys. I'll be watching the Nets.